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Cover of Henry Cowell: Piano Music, recorded in 1963, with Cowell demonstrating the longitudinal sweeping technique. String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe pianistic extended techniques in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, instead of or in addition to striking the piano's keys.
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Harmonies are played by the strings doubled by organs. The brass add to the harmonies in the first and last sections of the piece. The chord form for the piece was taken from the opening of the second movement of Béla Bartók's Second Piano Concerto. Reich initially wrote the first movement for only strings, with a significant amount of ...
Twentieth-century exponents of extended techniques include Henry Cowell (use of fists and arms on the keyboard, playing inside the piano), John Cage (prepared piano), and George Crumb. The Kronos Quartet , which has been among the most active ensembles in promoting contemporary American works for string quartet , frequently plays music which ...
string piano, i.e. hitting or plucking the strings directly or any other direct manipulation of the strings; sound icon, i.e. placing a piano on its side and bowing the strings with horsehair and other materials; whistling, singing or talking into the piano (with depressed sustain pedal) silently depressing one or more keys, allowing the ...
The Sword of Oblivion for string piano (ca. 1920–22) Exultation (1921) Six Ings (1922) Floating; Frisking; Fleeting; Scooting; Wafting; Seething; Piece for Piano with Strings (1923; for solo string piano, despite possibly confusing title) Aeolian Harp for string piano (ca. 1923) A Rudhyar (1924) The Harp of Life (1924) The Snows of Fuji-Yama ...
Piano and String Quartet is a composition by American avant-garde composer Morton Feldman.It was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet and pianist Aki Takahashi, who premiered the piece at the 7th annual New Music America Festival in Los Angeles and released a studio recording in 1993.
This permits larger, but not necessarily longer, strings to fit within the case of the piano. [1] The invention of cross-stringing in the 1820s is variously credited to Alpheus Babcock [2] [3] and Jean-Henri Pape. [4] The first use of the patent in grand pianos in the United States was by Henry Steinway Jr. in 1859.